Killing of Nigerians: FG sends delegation to Libya

By Martin Paul

Abuja

The federal government yesterday dispatched a special evacuation team to Tripoli, the Libyan capital on a fact finding mission on the level of the enslavement of Nigerians in that country.
The delegation, which comprised Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, included the Director-General of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), Dame Julie Okah-Donli, and the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Diaspora Matters, Hon. Abike Dabiri Erewa amongst others, would also look into plans of mass evacuation of Nigerians trapped in that country.
A statement signed by the Head, Press and Public Relations, National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), Mr. Josiah Emerole, stated that the delegation departed the Presidential wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja at 9.20am yesterday was onboard the Nigeria Air force Flight N5FGS.
“The fact finding mission will, among other things, engage with the Libyan authorities, Nigerian officials and citizens living in Libya as well as international organisations working on migration issues in Libya”, the statement added.
Reports of enslavement of Nigerians in Libya had reached a crescendo in the last few weeks and raised a lot of concerns in the country, hence President Muhammadu Buhari’s order that Nigerian citizens should be evacuated.
“For the NAPTIP Director-General, Dame Julie Okah-Donli, the Agency is ready to assist victims of human trafficking who will be amongst those returning to Nigeria to get properly reintegrated back into the Nigerian Society.
’’Our counsellors are fully ready to receive the returnees and give them the needed psychosocial Assistance for proper reintegration into the society. We will also help them with all the necessary tools to sustain themselves including vocational training and education assistance,” she said.

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